From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 1 11:26:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA03836 for current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 11:26:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA03831 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 11:26:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA11642; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 14:26:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 14:26:26 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" Message-Id: <9601011926.AA11642@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: minor change to ls -l In-Reply-To: <199601011855.TAA23513@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <9601011806.AA12318@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199601011855.TAA23513@uriah.heep.sax.de> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk < said: > previous behaviour is retained for most of the entries. By now, two > people complained about this being inconsistent. In case this is the > general opinion, we could convert it to always print the minor # in > hex, of course. The question for me is: will mknod(8) accept a minor number in hex? If not, and you plan to stick with this change, then you need to change mknod as well. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant